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cordwainer arch.|ˈkɔːdweɪnə(r)|
Forms: α. 1–5 cordewaner(e, 5 -wenere, corduener(e, (corwaner, kordwanner), 5–6 cordeweyner(e, -wayner, cordwaner, 5–7 -wayner, 6 -weiner, -wener, 6– cordwainer; corruptly 7 cordwiner, 7–9 -winder. β. 5–6 cordyner(e, 6–7 -inere, -ener, (Sc. -anar, -inar, -enar, -onar), 6–9 Sc. cordiner. γ. 6–7 corviner.
[a. AF. cordewaner = OF. cordoanier, -ouanier, -uennier, etc., mod.F. cordonnier, f. cordewan, cordouan, cordwain. Cf. It. cordovaniere, MDu. kordewanier (Kilian), MHG. kurdiwæner, shoemaker. Originally in Sp., It., and OF., a maker of or dealer in cordovan leather; thence in later F. and the Teutonic langs., a worker in this leather, a shoemaker. The form cordiner was retained till a late period in Scotland.]
A worker in cordwain or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. Now obs. as the ordinary name, but often persisting as the name of the trade-guild or company of shoemakers, and sometimes used by modern trades unions to include all branches of the trade. (In Scotland in the 18th c. distinguished from ‘shoemaker’: see 1722 in β.)
αa1100in Earle Land Charters 257 Randolf se cordewan[ere]. 1200Rotuli Chartarum 61/1 Roger Cordewaner. 1397Act 21 Rich. II, c. 16 §1 Qe null Suour ne Cordewaner ne use la mistier de Tanner. 1415York Myst. Introd. 23 Cordwaners. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 651/31 Hic alutarius, A⊇ cordewenere. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vii. 173 They lighted att a cordueners house. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 9 Coryers, cordwayners, and cobelers. 1570Levins Manip. 79 A cordweiner, calcearius. 1600Dekker Gentle Craft Wks. 1873 I. 44 L. Ma. Maister Eyre, are all these Shoomakers? Eyre. All Cordwainers, my good Lord Mayor. 1682A. Behn False Count i. i, Her Father..was in his youth an English cordwinder, that is to say a shoomaker. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xii. 299/1 The company of Shoemakers or Cordwainers as they stile themselves..were first incorporated in the 17th year of King Henry VI. 1814Wellington in Gurw. Desp. XII. 30 The unanimous resolution of the incorporated Company of Cordwainers of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. i. (1858) 128 This poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes I. 325 Surrendering thyself to..cordwinders, To leather-cutters and to hide-dealers. 1892Alden's Oxford Almanac 45 Trades Unions..Cordwainers' Society.
β1473–4in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. I. 65 To Henry Lintstare the Kingis cordenar. 1481in Eng. Gilds (1870) 331 The crafte of cordynerez. 1512in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 7 The crafte of cordeners in Oxford. 1552Lyndesay The Tragedy 353 Ane trym Tailyeour, ane connyng Cordonar. 1608N. Riding Records (1884) I. 125 John Simpson of Staythes, cordener. 1641Termes de la Ley 85 Cordiner or Cordwayner. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 124 The magistrats apprehended..one Killon, a cordiner. 1722Annals of Hawick (1850), The cordiners petition the council to be incorporated and separated from the shoe⁓makers ‘or those who make single-soled shoes’.
γ1601Holland Pliny x. xliii, Another shoomaker who had taken the next corviners shop unto him. ― Ibid. (1634) I. 188 The art of sowing, as wel for tailors as Corviners and shoomakers. |